Somali Studies is very fortunate to have been blessed with a cultural anthropologist of the calibre of Catherine Besteman. A keen cultural anthropologist with one eye to explore and the other to examine a complicated case at hand without losing one to the other, Besteman is one of the very few nuanced non-Somali scholars examining Somali society, and is invariably to the point and brilliant in her incisive analysis and insights into the transition (and transformation) of Somali society. Besteman is also an exciting ethnographer who always offers original research findings, this because of her extensive fieldwork in the Bantu/Jareer Somali community in the United States and Somalia. She did fieldwork in southern Somalia in an early period of her academic life as a young, enthusiastic and interesting anthropologist. Unlike some others (in Somali Studies) who have not had direct field research exposure, Besteman lived and stayed in a small farming village on the banks of Bu’aale in Jubbada Dhexe (the Middle Jubba) region, to collect ethnographic data for her doctoral project. The culmination is two significant single-authored books and one co-edited book, as well as numerous essays, academic articles, and book chapters.

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避难：索马里班图难民和缅因州刘易斯顿，凯瑟琳·贝斯特曼

Somali Studies 非常幸运地得到了一位像 Catherine Besteman 这样优秀的文化人类学家。贝斯特曼是一位敏锐的文化人类学家，一只眼睛探索，另一只眼睛检查手头的复杂案件，同时又不失一个人，贝斯特曼是为数不多的研究索马里社会的细致入微的非索马里学者之一，并且总是一针见血，才华横溢在她对索马里社会转型（和转型）的精辟分析和见解中。贝斯特曼还是一位令人兴奋的民族志学者，她总是提供原创研究结果，这是因为她在美国和索马里的班图/贾里尔索马里社区进行了广泛的实地考察。作为一名年轻、热情和有趣的人类学家，她在学术生涯的早期在索马里南部进行了实地考察。与其他一些没有直接进行实地研究接触的人（在索马里研究中）不同，贝斯特曼住在并住在朱巴达德赫塞（中朱巴）地区布阿勒河岸的一个小村庄里，为她的博士生收集人种学数据。项目。高潮是两本重要的单人著作和一本共同编辑的书，以及许多论文、学术文章和书籍章节。